hi every one!

i am a new user under Redhat 9, as ex-user windows for me the most simple for now is gnome so please explain me as a child because i understand just a little!! :-)

i tried to install my sound card with the drivers that were on my motherboard ' s cd but i have some problems with,

as soon as i tried to play something , or use the detection tool , my system recongnize which card a' ve got but cannot play a sound. it says that my card in not compatible with redhat9... is that possible?

after that modprobe snd-intel8x0 show me this:

[root@localhost alsa-driver-0.9.1adi]# modprobe snd-intel8x0
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol unregister_sound_special
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol register_sound_special
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: unresolved symbol schedule_work
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o: insmod snd-intel8x0 failed

please explain me what can i do!

please !

thanks every one!!!!

Ha ha! I disabled my intel 810 onboard sound years ago, it was a real PITA to set up.

My suggestion ? get a copy of the latest Ubuntu (it's better and _CONSIDERABLY NEWER_ than deadrat 9) and boot that. It will run "live" initially i.e. from the CD/DVD drive without putting anything on your hard drive - it's hardware detection is also superior to the redhat 9 - and see what you get.

If you get some sound then I'd install it. Nuts to deadrat - in anycase, the redhat 9 was the last of a "both" version from them - after that, they forked it so distros actually called "redhat" are now enterprise products, the community supported version is known as "fedora" (and yes thats exactly what the "hat" is, but coloured red) the latest, know by it's "core" version, is fedora Core then it's either version 5 or 6 I can't say for certain, I've never liked or used their stuff.

regards

John

p.s. Oh and yes, the bit you posted refers to a 2.4.20 kernel, which I believe is now considered unsafe/insecure i.e. anything before 2.4.22 - even though now, AFAIK the majority of distros are using the 2.6 series kernels.